Atlantic Highlands teen with cancer gets help from 200-plus bikers

9:50 PM,
Mar. 30, 2014

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Written by

Jenine Clancy
Correspondent

A couple hundred motorcycles thundered through an Atlantic Highlands suburb to help raise the spirits of a 14-year-old battling cancer and to help raise funds for his fight against the disease.

Maria and Anthony Falzone, whose son Chris was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma just two months ago, cried as they pushed the teen in his wheelchair down their driveway to a crowd of family, friends and hundreds of helmet- and leather-clad bikers Sunday morning.

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma is a cancer of the lymphatic system, which is a part of the body's immune system. About 500 of these cancers are ...